ED21B:
Digital Devices for Fieldwork, Data Analysis, and Geospatial Visualization: Innovative Applications to Undergraduate Education and Authentic Undergraduate Research Experiences across Geoscience Disciplines Posters


Session ID#: 8094

Session Description:
Today’s undergraduates were born after the iMac. They have had access to PCs, mobile devices, and social media throughout their teenage years. Digital technology has rewired their brains’ neural networks, changing their learning styles and preferences in ways that can both help and hinder deep understanding. The challenge for educators is to harness the potential of digital devices to promote inquiry, data analysis, and geospatial visualization in the classroom, on line, and in the field, whilst avoiding hindrances and distractions. We will invite a panel of national and international experts to address the intersection of u-Learning, m-Learning, undergraduate geoscience education, and technology-enabled undergraduate research, including enhancement of student success amongst non-traditional demographics and the opening of geoscience career opportunities for persons with disabilities. Key features of the session will be the merging of presenters from colleges of science and colleges of education with administrators from centers for teaching and learning.
Primary Convener:  Declan G De Paor, Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA, United States
Conveners:  Steven J Whitmeyer, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, United States and Callan Bentley, Northern Virginia Community College Annandale, Geology, Annandale, VA, United States
Chairs:  Steven J Whitmeyer, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, United States and Callan Bentley, Northern Virginia Community College Annandale, Geology, Annandale, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Callan Bentley, Northern Virginia Community College Annandale, Geology, Annandale, VA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Declan G De Paor, Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA, United States, Steven J Whitmeyer, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, United States, Callan Bentley, Northern Virginia Community College Annandale, Geology, Annandale, VA, United States and GEODE
Callan Bentley1, Alan David Pitts2, Robin C. Rohrback3 and Marissa Jean Schafer Dudek1, (1)Northern Virginia Community College Annandale, Geology, Annandale, VA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, United States, (3)Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA, United States
M'Hammed Abdous, Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA, United States
Helen Crompton, Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA, United States
Susan C Eriksson, Eriksson Associates, Boulder, CO, United States
Andrew M Goodwillie, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States and The IEDA Team
Audeliz Matias, SUNY Empire State College, Center for Distance Learning, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States and Susan C Eriksson, Eriksson Associates, Boulder, CO, United States
Lawrence L Malinconico Jr, Lafayette College, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Easton, PA, United States, David Sunderlin, Lafayette College, Geology & Environmental Geosciences, Easton, PA, United States and Chun Wai Liew, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, United States
Laurel P Goodell, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Jacqueline A Dohaney1, Ben Kennedy2 and Darren McClurg Gravley1, (1)University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, (2)University of Canterbury, School of Earth and Environment, Christchurch, New Zealand

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